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It's almost the end of January...how time flies! I've been busy catching up from the holidays and travel, but wanted to share with you a little peek into my new art.journal.PLAY live stream workshop series. The first four weeks are all about PLAYING with acrylics and building colorful backgrounds on the canvas. We had our first live streaming workshop on Wednesday and it was fabulous! I love teaching and demoing live...my students get a peek into my studio and can watch me create art in real time, ask questions and PLAY along in the comfort of their home.

In the first live workshop, we talked about a plethora of mixed media supplies, I shared a tour inside one of my art journal. I demoed various ways to use Golden High Flow Acrylics, including adding lettering with a pointed pen. I created multiple painted pages in my journal and showed various ways to build layers on the page with some of my favorite mark making tools like hot glue stencils, handmade printing plates and various refillable markers and bottles to use for painting.

Check out some of the lovely work from students in the workshop! Follow along to see artwork throughout the workshop on Instagram #artjournalPLAYNot only do I share lots of ideas and inspiration during the live stream sessions, every week students receive a PDF workbook full of art journaling & mixed media creative prompts and journal fodder. The exercises are meant to encourage you to PLAY in your art journal, even if it's for only 10 minutes.

Along with the art journaling workbooks, I share additional HD videos with step-by-step demonstrations of building layers on the pages and peeks inside my art journals. Throughout the twelve weeks, I'm also doing pop-up live stream session, where you can join me while I journal. These aren't scheduled for any particular time, I just turn on the camera and invite you into my virtual studio.

We're heading into the fourth week of the workshop series..lots more colorful mixed media lessons. Coming up, we'll be painting Soulful FACES, working with creating acrylic skins, collage and during the final month we'll explore binding handmade journals. You can still join in art.journal.PLAY live steam workshops and PLAY along! All the videos and live stream workshops are available for self guided study 24/7!

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10 minute mark-making prompts...

take just 10 minutes out of your day to make marks or brush paint onto your canvas!

It's that time of year...when crafters, artists, designers and manufacturers head to sunny southern california for the annual craft and hobby tradeshow...CHA winter mega show! This is a great event for networking, researching trends and meeting up with all my artsy/crafty friends. This year I will be attending a few workshops, meetings, walking the show floor and will be speaking on a panel about online workshops.

If you are coming to the show, come by and say hi! Here's the workshop info...

Taking Your Classes to the Virtual Space - ONLINE!

Join a panel of online craft & art instructors with a variety of experience teaching online to discuss the pros and cons of teaching online and various methods that can be used to reach an international audience without leaving home. Topics include live streaming, using an online "school" to host classes, self-hosted web classes, and more.

p.s. if you are going to be there..leave a comment and let us know what booth you'll be at.

There are lots of great sneak peeks check out hashtags #chaw2014, #cha2014

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION | *art.journal.PLAY is a mix of inspiration, creative prompts, LIVE online video demos, Q & A, printable workbooks and online community. Starting in January 2014, I'm launching a brand new three month online program that includes three LIVE steaming classes, HD mixed media video lessons and PDF workbooks to inspire you to PLAY in your art journal or sketchbook and explore mixed media.

CLASS FORMAT | Art journal inspiration posts and colorful workbook PDFs will be delivered via private classroom every Friday for twelve weeks. The exercises and ideas in the art journaling PDF workbooks include colorful photos, creative ideas, quotes, printable art journal backgrounds, papers and journal fodder. PLUS...I'll give you a peek inside my art journals through video tours and share step-by-step mixed media demos during monthly LIVE online classes, streaming HD video broadcasts from my studio. All videos and class content have forever 24/7 access in a private classroom. All videos & PDFs are available to be viewed on most smart phones and tablets with a wifi connection.

art.journal.PLAY workshop details...

workshop #1 ~ january 22, 2014 ~ acrylic explorations with high flowacrylic explorations is all about creating colorful backgrounds working with Golden High Flow paints and various mark-making tools. we'll explore printmaking+ lettering+ patterns.

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